A $4 from The Wall Street Journal said that Verizon is "exploring a combination" with fellow telecom giant Charter. Follow-ups from $4 and $4 later clarified that there have been no formal talks between the companies, though Bloomberg $4 Verizon has at least made some sort of inquiry about the possibility.
So, it's far from certain. But with a telecommunications market that's increasingly moving toward consolidation (Charter $4 just last year), a Trump administration that's expected to be pro-business, an $4 likely to approve mega-mergers, and a company in Verizon that could use more wired infrastructure to power its $4, a deal might make sense.
If a merger ever were to occur, the combined company would be a behemoth. As this chart from $4 shows, a combined Verizon and Charter would immediately have the most broadband subscribers in the country by a good margin. It'd also be just behind Comcast in terms of pay-TV subscribers. And that's in addition to Verizon's wireless business, which is still the largest in the US, and would be primed to take advantage of a $4.
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